Barça coach Gerardo Martino admitted after his side's 1-1 draw with Atlético Madrid that his team is obliged to win the Champions League tie: "To not get to the semis would be a failure," he told the press.

Martino went on to praise his player's performance. "The result means we are no longer favourites in the tie, but my team's performance made me very happy and if we can repeat it in the second leg we will have every chance", the Argentine coach said.

"I liked our intensity and the way we kept going", Martino continued. "We had more options when we got the ball out to our wide attacking players", he explained, while also underlining that in the first half, with four central players on the pitch his side kept the ball well and was better than Atlético, a team he described as "a specialist in stopping its rival making both individual and collective plays".